Sentence examples for on the sympathy of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tracey suggested that Mr. Paul was capitalizing on the sympathy of voters who would not want their own extracurricular college activities scrutinized too closely.

Mr. Ishihara is counting on the sympathy of his constituents, who, like most Japanese, have no love lost for their banks, which have long favored corporate clients over individual customers and small businesses.

When, after the March Revolution of 1917, the Russian provisional government had recognized Poland's right to independence, Roman Dmowski's Polish National Committee, which from 1914 had been functioning in a limited way under Russian protection, could at last count seriously on the sympathy of the western Allies.

Today, Wallace Terry recalls that, bizarrely, the Vietcong sometimes screamed, "Go home, soul man", at the black soldiers during combat and Browne, who was interviewed in Terry's Bloods, described how, "to play on the sympathy of the black soldier, the Vietcong would shoot at a white guy, then let the black guy behind him go through, then shoot at the next white guy".

As film is based on the sympathy of the populace, the popular circulation and consumption of anticommunist sentiment is not the same as that of the past.

Al Qaeda lost its hold on the sympathies of all but a small minority of Muslims, even as the U.S. made itself deeply unpopular.

On that show the writers, and Mr. Fox, were resolutely unsentimental: Canning was a manipulative shark who used his condition (identified as dyskinesia) to play on the sympathies of judges and jurors.

Even at their most desperate and ridiculous -- shaving their heads, for instance, to increase their credibility with potential customers -- George and Colm keep their dignity, and their hold on the sympathies of the audience.

Petland claims the animal advocacy groups tie their annual protests to year end fundraising drives and prey on the sympathies of consumers to increase donations.

In that scene, Palpatine played on the sympathies of Anakin to cut Windu's hands off so he could toss Windu out the window.

The power sector will play on the sympathies of the American public, protesting that dirty power polluters are just poor, beleaguered job creators who are being unfairly maligned for a problem that doesn't really exist.